Automated Accessibilty Testing Tools For Angular SPAs

Question

I am wondering if anyone has experience with an automated accessibility testing tool for Angular Single Page Applications (SPA).

I have tried pa11y and it does not seem to be working consistently. Just wondering if there are any other tools out there which are comparable to pa11y in ease of use, but which work with Angular.

Answer 1

Level Access offers an implementation example of Continuum called 'Continuum for Protractor' that might be a good place to get started. It's available for free at webaccessibility.com. You can use it as a template or as a reference to integrate automated accessibility testing into your existing Protractor tests. Here's some more information if you're interested. I also help maintain Continuum Explorer, which is a free extension for Google Chrome that is framework-agnostic and more interactive if you think that might be a better match for your use case.

Answer 2

@Estus raised a good point in the comment — "does not seem to be working consistently" is not a lot to go on. Regardless, a couple options:

• Take a look at protractor-accessibility-plugin for NPM which can lean on the Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools or Tenon.

• Related, there is a tutorial on using Tenon as a Grunt task.